Posted: 12/21/2010 4:43:03 PM EDT
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I may have one under my house. If I shoot it, I may not be able to retrieve it. So I'm thinking of setting off some firecrackers to scare it out. The reason for this is, I want to close up the two openings in the block foundation for the winter and would prefer not to have an animal in there when I do it.
Any and all ideas will be considered. |
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HavaHart trap,
http://www.havahart.com/resource/images/havahart/products/medium/1030_m.jpg marshmallows for bait (so you don't catch any cats). I always let them go after I catch them. Then I blast the disease ridden bastards all to hell. |
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HavaHart trap, http://www.havahart.com/resource/images/havahart/products/medium/1030_m.jpg marshmallows for bait (so you don't catch any cats). I always let them go after I catch them. Then I blast the disease ridden bastards all to hell. Its possible it could be a skunk. Would they spray when trapped? |
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Its possible it could be a skunk. Would they spray when trapped? In a trap small enough so their tail can't go up, no spray. In a trap big enough for a posssum, a skunk can spray. Move real slow around them and keep the trap covered with a towel / cloth / tarp. If it is a skunk, you would have smelled it by now anyway. |
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Its possible it could be a skunk. Would they spray when trapped? Yes, skunks will definitely spray when you trap them. And with a Hav-A-Hart trap you also get sprayed. I use these bucket traps and they work great! Good for possums and cats, too. |
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Quoted: Send in a pair of beagles to have a 'talk' with it... http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k11/Kevyn_53/IMG_0478.jpg If it doesn't leave quickly on its own, they'll drag it out... in pieces. Problem solved. That's cool to me, the only thing that would be cooler is if the OP had a trained falcon to kill the possum. |
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We had a 'female' opossum burrowed in under a sidewalk next to the garage one winter. Very interesting animal to watch. She would go out into the yard and scratch up grass and leaves and wrap her tail around the bundle and ferry it back to her nest. She either died in there or abandoned that nest in the Spring.
They have a very short natural life span; 2-3 years barring 'accidents'. Their body temp is too low to support viral hosts so they can't vector rabies. I've had daschunds and labs/setters that would tear them to pieces. That whole 'playing dead' thing worked against them. |